Great Lent
Clean Monday and General Rules for the Lenten Fast
Clean Monday and General Rules for the Lenten Fast.
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Clean Monday and General Rules for the Lenten Fast.
Catechetical Homily at the Opening of Great Lent 2019
On the same day, the Fourth Sunday of the Fast, we celebrate the memory of our Holy Father John, the author of The Ladder.
The Ladder of Divine Ascent is an ascetical treatise on avoiding vice and practicing virtue so that at the end, salvation can be obtained.
On this day, the Third Sunday of the Great Lent, we celebrate the Veneration of the Honorable and Life-Giving Cross.
A short explanation of the 3rd Sunday of Great Lent which is dedicated to the Veneration of the Holy Cross.
Learn about Clean Monday (this Year: March 14, 2016), about the beginning of Great Lent and the general rules of the Lenten Fast.
As we approach Great Lent, the time given to us specifically for repentance, the Church gives us a whole host of images to help us.
Our Lord Jesus Christ grafts us into His body, inviting us to become saints, “just as He is holy.” (1 Peter 1.16) Our Creator wants us to be in communion with Him in order to taste His grace, which is to participate in His sanctity.
On the Fifth Sunday of Lent, the Church honours the memory of a “street-walker”, a woman who led such a dissolute life that the word “prostitute” is more of a euphemism rather than an exact description of the depth of her sinfulness. The figure of Blessed Mary is highlighted on the last Sunday of Great Lent: on the one hand, to strike at our Churchy prissiness, since a common harlot is presented as a model of life; and, on the other, to provide an example and a ray of hope for repentance for all those who are slaves to their passions and continue to struggle to find ways to free themselves of them.
